Serpent eater - serpent eater - SERPENT EA†ER

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Serpents are represented as potent guardians of temples and other sacred spaces. This connection may be grounded in the observation that when threatened, some snakes (such as rattlesnakes or cobras ) frequently hold and defend their ground, first resorting to threatening display and then fighting, rather than retreat. Thus, they are natural guardians of treasures or sacred sites which cannot easily be moved out of harm's way.

Soon after the conflict ended in late 1981 , Rabastan was put on trial with his brother Rodolphus , sister-in-law Bellatrix , and Barty Crouch Jr for being a Death Eater and for participating in the torture of Alice and Frank Longbottom . They were all sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban . [2]